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Power without profit: why Stokes retains the failed Seven network

The Seven Network is a dog of an investment. But it’s valuable to Kerry Stokes for ‘strategic’ reasons…

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Profits halve for Kerry Stokes' Seven West Media

Net profits after tax have halved to $63 million for Kerry Stokes' media conglomerate, while revenue has dropped five per cent.

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Wake up and smell the fossil fuels in mining-controlled WA

Governments, media, even local sporting organisations have been wooed and won over by mining largesse, write Crikey readers.

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The stench of WA Inc is back — and it’s wafting over to the rest of us

WA Inc has returned — but this time the corporate interests are far bigger, and the surrender of the WA government much more complete.

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Chris Bowen calls for end to fossil fuels

Climate and Energy Minister Chris Bowen has told COP28 that all countries must shut down fossil fuels for the world to keep the 1.5-degree goal in sight, and Treasurer Jim Chalmers says ‘modernisation, maximisation and middle Australia’ will be Labor’s renewal and reform mantra on the road to the 2025…

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Kerry Stokes to pay costs of Ben Roberts-Smith’s defamation case

Seven West Media chair’s decision means network won’t have to hand over internal correspondence related to the case

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Billionaire's bill for Ben Roberts-Smith's failed suit

The private investment vehicle of Seven Network chairman Kerry Stokes will have to contribute to a mammoth legal bill after helping bankroll the former soldier.

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Chequed out: Channel Seven pays the price for Bruce Lehrmann Spotlight revelation

The Walkley Foundation strips Seven’s Spotlight of its ‘Scoop of the year’ nomination after details of payments. Plus: Gideon Haigh leaves the crease

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Seven West boss James Warburton stepping down

Broadcaster Seven Network will have a new boss when James Warburton steps down at the end of the financial year after an eventful period for the company.

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Seven paying Bruce Lehrmann’s rent exposes the ethical slippery slope of Chequebook Land

Exclusive rights to tabloid TV interviews are hammered out behind closed doors, leaving the public in the dark

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Defamation is the new battleground of the culture wars

Politicians have always pursued defamation cases, but it’s hard to avoid the sense right-wing figures use defamation to pursue culture wars too.

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At the end of every year, we summon the last of our energy to ask ‘why is it like this?’ Vote now for your culprit in Crikey’s Arsehat of the Year award.

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Afternoon Update: Brittany Higgins defends herself under cross-examination; Henry Kissinger dies; and a new newsletter for chart lovers

The former Liberal staffer broke down in tears as she told a defamation trial she was more concerned about being raped than about her dress

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Kerry Stokes loses bid to stop handover of emails regarding Ben Roberts-Smith’s failed defamation action

Three newspapers, owned by Nine, had subpoenaed documents and correspondence between Stokes, Seven and the former soldier’s legal team

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Seven, Stokes to produce emails and pay for lost appeal

Seven Network and its chairman Kerry Stokes have lost their bid to hang on to emails relating to Ben Roberts-Smith's failed defamation suit against newspapers.

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Subpoenas resisted in fight over Roberts-Smith's bill

Nine's barrister has argued narrowing subpoenas would hurt its case as it contends third-parties should pay for Ben Roberts-Smith's failed defamation action.

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Kerry Stokes’ failing Seven can still get a media deal done

Seven West Media has hit a new low on the sharemarket but it’s still climbing on board the latest deal to shrink Australian media diversity.

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When fossil fuel companies control politics and the media, protest is more important than ever

When fossil fuel companies control governments, climate advocates have no alternative but direct action. And their numbers will grow as the world cooks.

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What about the children?

A UN expert panel is in Western Australia to investigate why the state’s child protective services take so many Indigenous children from their families, and too many kids with disability are shunted to ‘special schools’ because teachers don’t want to deal with them.

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Mark Humphries’ comedy sketch cut from 7.30 in ABC’s latest cost-cutting drive

Satirical sketches axed due to ‘tight budgetary environment’. Plus: ABC managing director David Anderson gains another term

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Sportsbet unleashes record spend as Canberra weighs gambling advertising ban

As discussion heats up around reform on gambling advertising, lobbying has kicked into gear. But who would a ban actually affect?

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Lehrmann threatens to sue ACT’s DPP

Former Liberal staffer Bruce Lehrmann will sue for compensation if a report finds ACT chief prosecutor Shane Drumgold acted with ‘malice’, and social anthropologist Peter Sutton says he was ‘set up’ in an ABC doco on Bruce Pascoe’s book Dark Emu.

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Kerry Stokes and Seven ordered to hand over thousands of emails exchanged with Ben-Roberts Smith’s legal team

Nine newspapers subpoenaed the correspondence to argue Seven influenced defamation proceedings and should be liable for costs

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Financiers seek to narrow Roberts-Smith costs claim

Companies that backed disgraced veteran Ben Roberts-Smith's defamation lawsuits against media outlets want the scope of documents to assess costs narrowed.

The Guardian - AU

Kerry Stokes’s private company could have benefited financially if Ben Roberts-Smith won war crimes defamation trial, court hears

Detail around Seven Network chief emerges in hearing over who will bear costs of legal dispute between former soldier and media outlets

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